Car-fender



I (No Model.)

J. LANDAU, Jr. GAR FENDER.

No. 589,660. Patente Sept. 7,1897.

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' WITNESSES ATENT EEicE.

JOHN tannin, an, or BROOKLYN, NEW roan.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent N 0. 589,660, dated September 7, 1897.

Application filed June 7, 1897. Serial No; 639,730 (lie model.)

ketto retain the object and prevent it from rebounding out of the fender before the car is brought to a standstill.

The invention consists principally of a spring-pressed lever-frame f ulcrumed on the car-body and a basket removably hung on the said frame.

The invention also consists of certain parts A and details and combinations of the same, as

will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the int provement with part of the basket-netting omitted, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of the same.

The improved car-fender is provided with a basket A, remorably hung on a lever-frame B, fulcrumed on brackets 0, attached to the sides of the platform D of the car, the latter being provided at each end with such brackets and lever-frame, as only one basket A is used. This basket can be taken from one end of the car to the other and hung on the corresponding lever-frame.

The basket A is provided with a bottom frame A, preferably made U-shapcd and formed at its rear ends with hooks A adapted to be hooked upon a transverselycxtcnding rod or tube B, held in the lower ends of the double side arms 13 of the lever-frame B, as is plainly indicated in the drawings. The

hooks A are prevented from lateral movement in one direction by the arms 13 and in an outward direction by collars 13 secured by set-screws to the outer ends of the rods 13,

and the latter are prevented from lateral movement by collars 13*, secured by set-screws on the rod adjacent to the inner face of the arms 13 From the bottom of the frame A and from the sides thereof extend upwardly and rearwardly braces A rigidly connected with each other at their upper rear ends by a transverse rod A, adapted to engage hooks B formed on the upper endsof the side arms B of the lever-frame, so that the entire basket A can be readily placed in posit-ion on the leverframe byengaging the hooks A with the rod 13 and engaging the rod A with the hooks B and can be as readily removed from the lever-frame.

By reference to the drawings it will be seen that the hooks A have their openings in a downward direction, while the hooks B have their openings in an upward and somewhat forward direction, so that the basket A is not liable to become disconnected from the leverfram'e B when the forward end of the frame A strikes an object in the path of the car or the object passes into the basket.

The netting A for the basket is secured to a frame .A, bolted or otherwise secured to the inside of the frame A, the said netting A also extending upwardly on the inside of braces A connecting the sides of the frame A with the braces A the braces A being connected with each other by the rod A connected by braces A with the rod A as is plainly illustrated in Fig. 1. Thus the basket is open at the front and is partly closed 011 the sides by the braces A and extends at the back upwardly from a cross-bar A to the frame-rod A under the rod A The crossbar A is connected by a longitudinal bar A with the front end of the frame A at or near the middle thereof, as is plainly shown, so that the weight of the object passing into the basket does not unduly strain the netting.

The side arms 13 of the frame 13 are each pivotally connected with a rod E, extending rearward ly and fitted to slide at its rear end in a bearing formed on a bracket 0, depending from the bracket 0. A spring F is coiled on each rod E and rests with one end on the said bearing and with its other end on a collar G, secured to the rod E. By the arrangement described the spring F will hold the side bars 13 and consequently the entire frame B, in a slightly-inclined position, as shown in Fig. 2, and at the same time allow the lower end of the frame to swing rcarwardly against the tension of the springs F. The outer sliding motion of the rods E is limited by pins 11, held in the rods at the rear of the bearings in the bracket 0, as plainly indicated in Fig. 1.

It will be seen that by the arrangement described the basket A can be readily lifted from the lever-frame 15 and taken to the other end of the car and placed in the levcnfraine at this end of the car when the latter is on the return or home trip.

It will further be seen that the basket readily yields with the frame '13 when an object is struck by the frame and passes into the hasket, so that rebounding of the object out of the basket is entirely prevented. The entire car-fender is very simple and durable in construction and is not liable to get out of order. Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A car-fender comprising a lever-frame,

lever-frame, the said basket-frame being adapted to engage the hooks on the side arms of the said lever-frame, the hooks of the hasket-frame having their openings in a clownward direction and the hooks on the leverfraine being at the upper ends of the side arms, and having their openings upwardly and forwardly, substantially as shown and described.

Jenn LANDAU, JR.

Witnesses:

Tnno. G. I-Ios'rER, JNO. M. BITTER. 

